“parrot、coal”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

parrot-coal

释义

ˈparrot-coal Sc. and north. dial.
[Origin of parrot uncertain. (Quot. 1853 offers a fanciful guess.)]
The Scotch and northern name of cannel coal.
a1789Black in Brand Hist. Newcastle (1789) II. 242 note, Parrot, or kennel coal.1793Statist. Acc. Scot., Fifesh. VIII. 451 There is, on the north parts of Torry, a fine parrot coal, in thickness 4 feet, which is very valuable.1801Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) Suppl. II. 231/1 Cannel coal..is found in Lancashire, and in different parts of Scotland, where it is known by the name of parrot coal.1853Fleming in Pharmac. Jrnl. XIII. 124 ‘Parrot’..might be applied to them, from the fact that, when burning, they ‘chattered’ somewhat like a parrot.1877Le Conte Elem. Geol. v. (1879) 343 Cannel or parrot coal is a dense, dry, structureless, lustreless, highly-bituminous variety, which breaks with a conchoidal fracture.

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